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Web Service to Get Current UTC Time?

I'm building a PHP web application and need to know what the current date/time is. I cannot depend on the server's setting. Any web service I can use? I know there will be some delay accessing the time via web service, but I am fine with something that is not accurate to the last millisecond.

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Yes, get it from a public NTP server.

Look at a PHP implementation here:

http://www.kloth.net/software/timesrv1.php

Vitor Py  2010-07-18 02:03:37

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